loco – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of loco

Noun: loco
Gender: m Hyphenation: lò‧co
Singular mloco
Plural mlochi

Sample Sentences

  • ["]Noi siam venuti al loco ov’i’ t’ ho detto / che tu vedrai le genti dolorose / c’ hanno perduto il ben de l’intelletto". ("We have come to the place wherein I told you that you will see the tormented people who have lost the good of intellect.") [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 16–18; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii, li quali se ponevano nelle locora famose dove demoravano moititudine de iente (accounts were made through incisions on rocks and gravestones, which were placed in famed places, where moltitudes of people lived) [1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:]

Nouns inflected like loco

loco,

Etymology

Inherited from Latin locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”). See: Latin Nouns 'locus', Latin Nouns 'locus'.

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